Ideas worth spreading

The other inconvenient truth

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Jonathan Foley |

TEDxTC

• October 2010

A skyrocketing demand for food means that agriculture has become the largest driver of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental destruction. Jonathan Foley shows why we desperately need to begin "terraculture" -- farming for the whole planet.

A skyrocketing demand for food means that agriculture has become the largest driver of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental destruction. Jonathan Foley shows why we desperately need to begin "terraculture" -- farming for the whole planet.

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Jonathan Foley

Climate solutions scientist

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As executive director of Project Drawdown, Jonathan Foley envisions a near future where greenhouse gasses not only plateau but also begin to steadily decline.

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